Powell was stabbed six times, in his neck, chest, back and arms. He was taken to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan, where he died.

Powell was a hospital corpsman third class traveling from San Diego back to his duty station in Bethesda, Md., according to officials at Great Lakes Naval Training Center in North Chicago. Cleveland, also a hospital corpsman, and Reid, a Navy civilian employee, were assigned to the medical center at the base, police said.